Friday, August 26, 2005

Itsy bitsy Spider

A little something different. People always ask me what my fave
character to draw is and truth is, there are too many to name.
Definitely not a clear cut favorite. But as far as one of the least
favorite characters to draw...well that would have to be the Friendly
Neighborhood Spider-Man.

Now I love the character and love how John
Romita and JRJR and Michael Golden and Todd McFarlane interpreted him
and the 2 movies are simply brilliant...it's just as a character to
draw...well, I just can't get past the webbing. Can't figure it out
and to me, it always feels like I'm drawing treads on a tire or
windows on a 100 story skyscraper. To do that every panel, 22 pages
an issue. Yowsa! This one was for
Ale's son who just had a birthday and the Webcrawler is one of his
favorite characters. So exceptions were made...damn webbing!

19 comments:

Not usual to see you draw Spiderman.I remember seeing a couple of your spiderman sketches & they were AWESOME(especially,the Spiderman-Black Cat).Seems that someones just have kind of midastouch, making every panel just wonderful to watch at.

This a pure killer ! I like the idea of Spider-man being a little muscle-up ! I remember the cover of the Punisher with Spider-man in it wich is one of my favorite !This piece is pa pure Killer ! ( did I say that twice ? )

If someone would read this I want to write the picture is GREAT! AMAZING! I think his eyes looks a little like Mark Bugley's version at old books. Todd McFarlane was the greatest Spider-Man's artist. He invented many very good patents. I'm very interesting how looks YOUR Spider's symbol. Right here it looks budding, yesyesyo. If you will draw some more Spiders please let us know how they looklike.

Great pic Jim. Even your least favorite to draw characters come out looking top notch. I think it's interesting to see you draw someone with SM's physique since we don't get to see that very often anymore with the DC characters you're drawing being mainly big and wide body types. I would love to see more slender heroes from you, like Daredevil or some full body Gambit pics, hehe.

Beautiful, awesome drawing, Jim!!! Love the light coming from below, the shadow on the wall, the detail in the background and of course the really cool Spidey himself! This drawing's freakin' PERFECT!!!

As far as not liking to draw him though, I can't say I agree with you; I think after Wolverline & Batman, Spidey's probably the character I've drawn the most in my life (as an aspiring comic artist I draw a lot) and after drawing him probably hundreds of times in the last 15 years or so to me he's really a piece of cake.

But yeah, I've heard this before, and not just from you (in fact they usually get his webbing wrong in his own books too, HATE THAT), but of course, you got the webbing just right in this masterpiece.

I've personally always thought the webbing's actually a pretty simple design to do but I'm sure drawing it for an entire comic, panel after panel, would get totally tedious.

Anyway, the drawing is AWESOME AS USUAL and you are forever the MASTER, JIM!!!!!!!!

Haha I remember as a kid my favorite character to draw would be Spider-man, and I'd draw everything and save the webbing for last. Then I would just get frustrated, especially around his head. Well, you can always draw the symbiote costume next time :P